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A look at what's going on in the field of user experience.
Human engineering
, UX Collective - Medium
Doing the right thing should be easy.Da Vinci’s Vitruvian ManHuman engineering isn’t what you might think. It’s not a eugenic nightmare of bioengineering and gene selection. Thank goodness, it’s much more benign. Instead, human engineering is a multi-disciplinary field that brings together psychologists, engineers, cognitive scientists, organizational behavioral specialists, and designers. Their goal is to make it easy for people to do the right thing. [Redacted: High brow “A Clockwork Orange” joke] Sometimes referred to as interaction design or cognitive ergonomics, the aim of human engineering is to improve human performance by looking at systems.
Simply put, human engineering tries to make it easier to do the right thing and harder to do the wrong thing for any task or activity. This aim is achieved through the design (and alteration of existing designs) of the technology, systems, and environments that individuals interact with. Immediately we see the application of human engineering into the paradigm of system dynamics and human error.
When software has integrity
, UX Collective - Medium
Three stories of tools that refused to sell outMiddle finger coming out of a phone at a big bag of moneyLately I’ve been writing critically about the current state of tech. So much of it feels infested with ads, deceptive design patterns or erosions of privacy all engineered to squeeze every last drop of engagement out of our already overstimulated grey matter. So as a contrast, I thought it’d be worth remembering that not all technology follows this trajectory.
At this point, many of us have grown so accustomed to terrible treatment from our tech providers that we mistake it for the natural order of things. I wrote an article last week about YouTube’s slow shift from serving users to serving advertisers, and someone commented: “Sadly, as long as the internet is largely ‘free,’ then there will always be ads. Always 🫠🫠🫠.” And while I get the feeling. Sometimes it really feels like we’re like travellers stuck in an airport terminal, forced to accept whatever fate awaits us, because there’s nowhere else to go. But there are more examples than you’d think of technology that has stayed open, portable, and most importantly put people over profit!
The AI bubble isn’t bursting — it’s diffusing
, UX Collective - Medium
Some are speculating a bursting bubble, while others see the early signs of AI diffusion.
Introducing the Design Stroll
, UX Collective - Medium
Great ideas arrive on their own time. The design stroll is an easy framework for capturing them when they do.Illustration by Liam Oscar ThurstonThrough all the changes I’ve seen in design throughout my career, there has been one constant: Everyone always wants you to go faster. To (maybe) quote Benjamin Franklin, “time is money”. A lot of designers are happy to trot out the old “Good/Fast/Cheap: Choose 2” diagram, bitterly complaining that no one ultimately picks “good” among the options. But failing to keep up is an existential threat. If you can’t design in time, then it’ll be an engineer, or a VP, or an AI agent that will.
I made this diagram quickly and cheaply. As a result, it kind of sucks.As someone who reacts viscerally to bad design, I tend to lean a tad towards stubborn when it comes to quality. This means I spend altogether too much time thinking about ways to do design, at quality, quickly. It’s part of the reason I like design systems so much. And I’m while I’m the first person to raise an eyebrow at the latest productivity/ creativity/ diet/ life-hack, I’ve come to recognize something about how I work, and how I assume others do too. I’ve found that my next great idea has rarely arrived on time, or on theme, or during set “creative” opportunities. Instead, they’ve come when I’m knee deep in the work, inside those fabled flow states people talk about where you can “see the matrix” or whatever.
Gemini 3 for Web Design
, UX Planet - Medium
Gemini 3 is Google’s latest multimodal/agentic AI model. Previously, I showed how to use Gemini 3 for UI Design, and in this article, I want to show you how to make the most of this tool for web design.
If you want to create a quick prototype of a web page, you no longer need to use Figma for that. You can start in Gemini and provide the following instructions:
Gemini 3 For UI Design
, UX Planet - Medium
Gemini 3 is the latest state-of-the-art LLM from Google. It is not just an incremental update it’s a radical shift toward an agentic-first experience. The model is optimized for multimodality and long-horizon planning. In other words, it doesn’t just answer prompts better; it can think, plan, and act more autonomously across different modalities.
In this article, I want to show you 5 cases of using Gemini 3 for UI design tasks
Rake Weighting: How to Weight Survey Data with Multiple Variables
, MeasuringU
Having a representative sample is ideal when making inferences about your customer or user population. In practice, it can be difficult to recruit the right proportion of respondents, leaving your sample out of balance with the population.
One way to adjust for being off balance is to weight the data you collected to get the sample back into proportion with the population percentages (such as for variables like age, geographic region, or experience levels).
Creating UI Assets with ChatGPT
, UX Planet - Medium
ChatGPT is a versatile tool that can be used for all kinds of purposes. I’ve already demonstrated how to use it for UI design
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UI Design with Midjourney
, UX Planet - Medium
Midjourney is a great AI imagery generator. The latest version (v7) is capable of producing decent-quality visual output. A lot of articles and videos show how Midjourney can generate different kinds of visuals, but a few demonstrate UI design output.
In this article, I want to share a prompt template that you can use to generate UI design with Midjourney, tips & tricks on how to achieve better results with the tool, and examples of the output generated by the tool.
What Metrics Has MeasuringU Created?
, MeasuringU
At MeasuringU®, we don’t just use UX metrics—we create them.
But what have we created, and what have we just used or extended?
